Blue Origin has taken a significant step toward its long-term ambitions in space exploration, marking its first successful reuse of a major rocket component. The company’s New Glenn rocket launched on April 19, completing a mission that signals a shift in how it plans to compete in the growing commercial space industry. The flight, known…
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SpaceX is about to reach 10,000 satellites in space for the first time
In the spring of 2019, SpaceX launched its first batch of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, an ambitious opening move in what was then a largely untested grand experiment. Less than seven years later, the company is on the verge of a milestone that would have seemed almost fictional at the time — placing…